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John Santelli, Senior Fellow

Dr. John Santelli is the Department Chair and Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, and is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Dr. Santelli is a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist who joined the Guttmacher Institute in 2002 as a Senior Fellow. Prior to coming to New York, he was the Chief of the Applied Sciences Branch in the Division of Reproductive Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He has conducted research on HIV/STD risk behaviors, programs to prevent STD/HIV/unintended pregnancy among adolescents and women, school-based health centers, clinical preventive services, and research ethics. He has been a national leader in insuring that adolescents are appropriately included in health research. Dr. Santelli received his MD from the Buffalo School of Medicine in 1982 and his MPH degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1986. He is a member of the board of directors of the Society for Adolescent Medicine and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Adolescent Health, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health and AIDS Education and Prevention.